Multiple organ failure after ingestion of pennyroyal oil from herbal tea in two infants

Pediatrics

Volumn 98, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 944-947

  Bakerink, James A ^a   Gospe Jr , Sidney M ^a   Dimand, Robert J ^a   Eldridge, Marlowe W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

liver failure; menthofuran; pennyroyal oil; pulegone

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; INTOXICATION; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEA; TOXICITY TESTING;

BEVERAGES; BRAIN DISEASES; BRAIN EDEMA; CYCLOHEXANONES; EPILEPSY; HUMANS; INFANT; LIVER FAILURE, ACUTE; MALE; MENTHOL; MONOTERPENES; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NECROSIS; OILS, VOLATILE; TERPENES;

EID: 0029859836     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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